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According to the Pulitzer website, anyone can nominate anything for a Pulitzer Prize and Pulitzer Surprises takes advantage of that horrible idea. Our favorite comedians perform their submission for a Pulitzer! Then we interview a real-life Pulitzer Prize winner who has actually done something good. At the end of the show the audience will cast their vote on who deserves a Pulitzer, and then we will really submit it for a Pulitzer Prize. That winner walks away a “Pulitzer Prize Entrant."

Cassidy Routh is a visual artist living in New York. She'll make you some watercolor/pen&ink stuff for a good price. She spends the majority of her time making digital art for television & is not a fan of how this sounds like a debutante's introduction.

John Reynolds is New York based comedian from Chicago, IL. He has performed at and with The Second City Touring Company, IO Chicago, Annoyance Theatre, UCB NY, and in the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. John can be seen in the upcoming TBS series Search Party and Netflix's Stranger Things and The Characters.

Jason O. Gilbert is a humor writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, McSweeney's, Slate, GQ, Esquire, Above Average, Paste, and many more fine publications. He has also worked as a journalist for The Huffington Post and as a lifeguard for many swimming pools in Georgia. He lives in Brooklyn.

Ziwe Fumudoh is a comedienne based in New York City, USA, baby. Her jokes have been featured in the The Onion, Above Average, and Reductress. Additionally, her tweets have appeared in Buzzfeed, CNN, Cosmopolitan, The Fader, NPR, NYMAG, and other publications her mom hasn't emailed to her... yet. Ziwe rhymes with Freeway.

Tariro Mzezewa is a staff editor in The New York Times Opinion section. She was the editorial assistant to op-ed columnists Roger Cohen and David Leonhardt, responsible for researching, fact checking and social media. She's written for Vogue's Culture section, The Times's Style and Metro sections and covered emerging financial markets for Thomson Reuters. She hails from Harare by way of "the D.C. area" and a three-year detour in Rome, Italy.